Melissa Carr is a single mom with three kids, bills and an unemployment application that has been pending for eight weeks and counting. “I’m used to going to work every day," she told News 6 Thursday. “The money has run out now and the unemployment (check) isn’t here.” Carr worked as a restaurant supervisor at Spinner, a St.
Petersburg Beach favorite located on the top of the Grand Plaza Hotel. In late March she was furloughed along with the rest of the 33-member staff as the COVID-19 pandemic forced closings across the country.
Like many Florida locations, the restaurant is preparing for a soft opening Friday but she still has not received a call to return to work. “Not even half the servers have been called back to wait tables,” she said.